Comment By Cindy and Craig Corrie
Black Palestinian Solidarity: Struggling for Joint Liberation
The Reinterpreting Liberation program, and the Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA), at The Evergreen State College, present a panel discussion with Nada Elia and Jesse Hagopian.
The event will be at Purce Hall 1, at The Evergreen State College.
With a focus on the genocide in Gaza, they will be discussing how global struggles for liberation intersect, and how this informs their work as activists and educators. This discussion will be moderated by Jen Marlowe, an author, filmmaker, and RCF board member.
This event is free and open to the public.
Jesse Hagopian has been an educator for over twenty years and taught for over a decade at Seattle’s Garfield High School–the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test. Jesse is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools and the book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. Jesse is also co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching for Black Lives, Teacher Unions and Social Justice, and an organizer with the Black Lives Matter at School movement. In 2011, Jesse participated in the Interfaith Peace Builder’s historic first African Heritage delegation that brought 14 African Americans to Israel and Palestine to meet with civil society organizations, human rights groups, and grassroots activists to better understand the conflict. Jesse will join the panel over Zoom.
Nada Elia teaches Arab American Studies and Cultural Studies at Fairhaven College, WWU, where she is affiliated with the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. A scholar-activist, Nada is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and regularly publishes editorials about gender, activism, and transnational struggles. She is the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. She has co-edited the Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Activist Toolkit, as well as the award-winning The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, and has contributed chapters to numerous anthologies, including, most recently, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
5 Broken Cameras: Fundraiser for Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 21, at 7:00 pm, join the Rachel Corrie Foundation and Olympia Film Society (OFS) for a screening of 5 Broken Cameras, a documentary film chronicling a Palestinian farmer’s life and his community’s nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation and confiscation of village land.
About the Film
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards, this film is an extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism. Human Rights Watch writes, “5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker. Structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village upheaval.”
Cindy Corrie, who has visited Bil’in six times since 2005, will provide a short introduction to the film.
Doors open at 6:00! Tickets can be purchased through this link for $12 (general admission) or $9 (OFS members). No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
All funds raised at tomorrow’s event will directly benefit the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a nonprofit organization working to deliver essential and life-saving medical relief, as well as humanitarian aid such as food, clean water, and healthcare to Palestinian families affected by the crisis. Since hostilities began on October 7th, PCRF has played a crucial role in developing relief efforts aimed at the over one million children in Gaza, who desperately need humanitarian aid after enduring 44 days under siege. If you cannot attend the screening but would like to donate to PCRF, please visit their website.
Palestinian Student Relief Fund
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